This Palo Alto house has great neighbors
788 Clara Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94303 | MLS# 80927131
788 Clara Dr Palo Alto, CA 94303
Price: $1,550,000
Beds: 5
Baths: 3.5
Sq. Ft.: 2,915
$/Sq. Ft.: $532
Lot Size: 5,663 Sq. Ft.
Property Type: Detached Single Family
Style: Traditional
Stories: 2
Year Built: 1954
Community: Midtown
County: Santa Clara
MLS#: 80927131
Source: MLSListings
Status: Pending With Release
On Redfin: 138 days
BEST $$$$ PER SQ. FT VALUE FOR THIS SIZE HOME IN MIDTOWN! NOT REPRODUCABLE! EXPANDED AND REMODELED. RECENT UPDATES. FLOWING FLRPLN W/ ABUNDANT NTRL LT. DRAMATIC 17 FT FRML ENTRY. GLEAMING HW FLRS, CUSTM MLDGS, RECSD LTNG ABOUND! LRG FDR W/ CSTM BLT-INS. HUGE LR, KIT, SEP FR FLOW TO LRG PRVT YARD W/ FLGSTONE PATIO, LAWN, & SUNDECK! WALKING DISTANCE TO TOP RATED P. A. SCHLS, PRKS, SPNG, TRNS. EZ COMMUTE TO 101 OR 280!
Thanks to Burbed reader Galileo for this find!
This house is not reproducable – or reproducible! The fact that it is built with such loving care in Palo Alto prevents that from happening.
Frankly, I think this is significantly underpriced, which probably explains why it’s pending already! It’s got so much going for it. Heck, even the house number is lucky! I bet there 32109 bids, and still growing. $532 per square foot? What a tease!
However, what really makes this house not reproducable, is the neighbors! Let’s take a quick walk down the street to meet one!
Oh excellent! There’s an antique car collector down the street! In fact, it’s right next door!
This will provide for a fantastic learning experience for your children. In between MyTwitFace, they can learn how to change a carburetor air filter, and find empties for recycling! Now that’s diversity!
They’ll also learn about fairness – for example, how your children’s parents will be paying $15,000 a year in property tax while their neighbor pays one order of magnitude less – $1,370. Hey, after all, 780 Clara Street helped build this community. They’ve earned it.
October 28th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Wht I lve the mst is the REALTARD’s exlnt use of grmmr. By elmntg every poss. vowel, he ws able to sqze in a cpl of add’l wrds into that exlnt prop dscrptn.
What a moron..
And what the hell does “SPNG” mean anyway??? Sponge? Seeping?
October 28th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Due to a scheduling error, there were two posts today. Oops.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am
haha. look at this shitty house in the ghetto.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
> And what the hell does “SPNG” mean anyway??? Sponge? Seeping?
Shopping. It’s close to Safeway.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
no, silly. spanging What you’ll need to do for extra mortgage money.
October 28th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
SPNG, that’s Snapping, i do that every afternoon.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Wow, overpriced by a factor of 4.
November 1st, 2009 at 2:10 pm
There is another avid old car collector around the corner at 703 Clara Street. Check it out on Google street maps.
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
These are all “smart” people of RBA.
Look at the red pickup truck on street view – full of smart stuffs.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Uh oh, my new neighbors moved in this weekend. One drives a pickup and the other drives an SUV. There goes the neighborhood!
Or maybe that was just the workers… when the garage opened you could see that all of the carpet & padding had been ripped out of the house. Another fixer upper sold for over a million bucks. (shakes head)
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
That’s what I notice working in Palo Alto and environs. There are occasional older residents to remind you what the area was really like a few decades ago when it was more of a working class suburb.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Notice what? Pickup trucks & old people?
My new neighbors are way younger than the senior citizens who moved out after they built their dream McMansion in Almaden. Mid-30s maybe? Anyway, my kind of people: move in and start ripping sh*t out!
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:49 pm
nomadic, please don’t break bob’s bubble
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
.. that would make you a prick! (ahahah… burst… prick)
* yawn *
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
yuk yuk. oh well, I’ve already been called a dick.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
So much humour tonight…
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
it’s not like I’m getting a lot of help either
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Here’s a one liner for you guys:
The trouble with owning a home is that no matter where you sit, you’re looking at something you should be doing.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 am
That is a joy of homeownership: maintaining a deterioritating structure.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:43 am
deterioritating
Is that something that not only deteriorates, but is irritating for doing so?
November 21st, 2009 at 1:59 am
Pending.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:17 am
Hurray! Gone pending……after 6 months. It proves that Palo Alto “1 to 2 million range is hot”. I bet this is another mutiple
price reductionoffer situation in Clara Dr.November 21st, 2009 at 9:18 am
Huzzah!
I’m going to celebrate Tennessee-style and open a bottle of mayonnaise! Pop the cork, baby!
November 21st, 2009 at 9:32 am
herve, huzzah indeed. well done.
November 21st, 2009 at 9:38 am
Overbidding is still common in Palo Alto. I bet this is another property where there are 8 cash offers over $2M. Please open a bottle of Heinz ketchup for me.
Is there any “prospective buyer” for this property who lost his bid to 8 cash offers over $2M?
November 21st, 2009 at 9:53 am
Has anyone ever tried this?
Who wouldn’t like a recipe that starts with “Cook bacon in pan and reserve rendered fat“?
February 8th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
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June 25th, 2012 at 8:56 am
Sold for $1.505M in February 2010 but STILL shows as pending on Redfin. 1116 DOM and counting….